#year

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #doing #fast #get #i

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#every #full #getting #getting older #i

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#be strong #course #day #every #every day

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#falling #falling in love #go #hardly #into

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#i #i think #mean #place #press

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#been #catalyst #change #critics #got

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#around #children #couple #curious #die

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#after #ago #autobiography #coming #couple

Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#audience #because #different #differently #fifty